Highmon

Highmon is a perl script for Weechat 0.3.0+ that allows you to track highlighted messages in a new buffer. It is based off the chanmon system, and has similar features.
Current Version: 2.5 [ dl ]
(released: 16-08-2014)

Command Usage:

  • /highmon [help] | [monitor [channel [server]]] | [clean default|orphan|all] | clearbar
    Command wrapper for highmon commands
  • /highmon clean default|orphan|all will clean the config section of default ‘on’ entries, channels you are no longer joined, or both
  • /highmon monitor [channel] [server] is used to toggle a highlight monitoring on and off, this can be used in the channel buffer for the channel you wish to toggle, or be given with arguments e.g. /monitor #weechat freenode
  • /highmon clearbar will clear the contents of highmon’s bar output

Settings:
‘highmon’ stores all it’s settings in Weechat’s plugins.conf, the following can be set there, by using /set or the ‘iset’ plug-in

  • alignment – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.alignment "channel"
    The config setting “alignment” can be changed to;
    “channel”, “schannel”, “nchannel”, “channel,nick”, “schannel,nick”, “nchannel,nick”
    to change how the monitor appears
    The ‘channel’ value will show: “#weechat”
    The ‘schannel’ value will show: “6”
    The ‘nchannel’ value will show: “6:#weechat”
    (Default: ‘channel’)
  • short_names – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.short_names "on|off"
    Setting this will trim the network name from chanmon, ala buffers.pl
    (Default: ‘on’)
  • short_names – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.merge_private
    Setting this to ‘on’ will merge private messages to highmon’s display
  • color_buf – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.color_buf "on|off|colour"
    This turns coloured buffer names on or off, you can also set a single fixed colour by using a weechat colour name.
    This must be a valid colour name, or weechat will likely do unexpected things 🙂
    (Default: ‘on’)
  • hotlist_show – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.hotlist_show "on|off"
    Setting this to ‘on’ will let the highmon buffer appear in hotlists (status bar/buffer.pl)
  • away_only – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.away_only "on|off"
    Setting this to ‘on’ will only put messages in the highmon buffer when you set your status to away
  • logging – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.logging
    Toggles logging status for highmon buffer
    (default: off)
  • output – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.output
    Changes where output method of highmon; takes either “bar” or “buffer”
    (default; buffer)
  • bar_line – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.bar_lines
    Changes the amount of lines the output bar will hold.
    (Only appears once output has been set to bar, defaults to 10)
  • nick_prefix – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.nick_prefix
    nick_suffix – /set plugins.var.perl.highmon.nick_suffix
    Sets the prefix and suffix chars in the highmon buffer
    (Defaults to <> if nothing set, and blank if there is)

Optional:

# Set up tweaks; Hide the status and input lines on highmon
/set weechat.bar.status.conditions "${window.buffer.full_name} != perl.highmon"
/set weechat.bar.input.conditions "${window.buffer.full_name} != perl.highmon"

History:

  • 2014-08-16, KenjiE20
    v2.5: -add: clearbar command to clear bar output
    -add: firstrun output prompt to check the help text for set up hints as they were being missed and update hint for conditions to use eval
    -change: Make all outputs use the date callback for more accurate timestamps (thanks Germainz)
  • 2013-12-04, KenjiE20
    v2.4: -add: Support for eval style colour codes in time format used for bar output
  • 2013-10-22, KenjiE20
    v2.3.3.2: -fix: Typo in fix command
  • 2013-10-10, KenjiE20
    v2.3.3.1: -fix: Typo in closed buffer warning
  • 2013-10-07, KenjiE20
    v2.3.3: -add: Warning and fixer for accidental buffer closes
  • 2013-01-14, KenjiE20
    v2.3.2: -fix: Let bar output use the string set in weechat’s config option
    -add: github info
  • 2012-04-15, KenjiE20
    v2.3.1: -fix: Colour tags in bar timestamp string
  • 2012-02-28, KenjiE20
    v2.3: -feature: Added merge_private option to display private messages (default: off)
    -fix: Channel name colours now show correctly when set to on
  • 2010-12-22, KenjiE20
    v2.2: -change: Use API instead of config to find channel colours, ready for 0.3.4 and 256 colours
  • 2010-12-13, idl0r & KenjiE20
    v2.1.3: -fix: perl errors caused by bar line counter
    -fix: Add command list to inbuilt help
  • 2010-09-30, KenjiE20
    v2.1.2: -fix: logging config was not correctly toggling back on (thanks to sleo for noticing)
    version sync with chanmon
  • 2010-08-27, KenjiE20
    v2.1: -feature: Add ‘nchannel’ option to alignment to display buffer and name
  • 2010-04-25, KenjiE20
    v2.0: Release as version 2.0
  • 2010-04-24, KenjiE20
    v1.9: Rewrite for v2.0
    Bring feature set in line with chanmon 2.0
    -code change: Made more subs to shrink the code down in places
    -fix: Stop highmon attempting to double load/hook
    -fix: Add version dependant check for away status
  • 2010-01-25, KenjiE20
    v1.7: -fixture: Let highmon be aware of nick_prefix/suffix and allow custom prefix/suffix for chanmon buffer
    (Defaults to <> if nothing set, and blank if there is)
    (Thanks to m4v for this)
  • 2009-09-07, KenjiE20
    v1.6: -feature: coloured buffer names
    -change: version sync with chanmon
  • 2009-09-05, KenjiE20
    v1.2: -fix: disable buffer highlight
  • 2009-09-02, KenjiE20
    v.1.1.1 -change: Stop unsightly text block on ‘/help’
  • 2009-08-10, KenjiE20
    v1.1: In-client help added
  • 2009-08-02, KenjiE20
    v1.0: Initial Public Release

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